Brut! Records baby sister label, POP!, sees its second release with Popnoname’s Spaces. An eclectic line-up, including Joerg Burger, Freund der Familie and Paid for Fame, remix the original three times over offering varied perspectives  of the same brave track. Revving its engine, Spaces drives you to experience things: it invites you to crack yourself open so that some new future might pour through that voluntary rift. Bold and beautiful and formless, it emerges: a baby nebula, cradled in the spiral arms of a distant galaxy, patiently building mass as it clumps gas and dust together.

  The important things often creep up unaware.  Only once they arrive do you recognize them, even though you had given them no shape in your mind prior to their arrival. Space gives possibility to what these forms might be, boundless in four-dimensions. It’s that expanding medium that allows imagination to roam without end…where the need to distinguish between what you know and invented evaporates and flows pure and clear.

  With Spaces, Popnoname adds an “s” to the end of this giant 5-letter word and a plurality emerges. Definition shuffles its feet and looks to the ceiling, uncertain of just whom it might be. This record examines ‘spaces’ with different dimensions and structures. It  invites  you to explore sonic relationships. Each artist applies a creative force to the word and a preferred geometry settles into form: one moment a handled-cup, the next a donut, a tire, a steel nut, a pipe…ever-shifting manifolds.

  On the A-side, the original track is perhaps an imprint of Popnoname’s inner shape: a confident energy creating a place where rare river otters lounge on sun-warmed rocks and thick water fills your mouth  when you inhale to drink. Joerg Burger’s remix follows with a poetic sprung-rhythm. Stripping away  the pop and sparkle, he  studies the beauty of its reduced structure: comfortable in its naked form.

  The flip side offers Freund der Familie’s abstracted take. Removing the vocals, the track slowly melts away into decaying reverb. Billowing echoes subtly elongate deep belly growls and stretch your sight beyond the visible horizon until intuition emerges. Paid for Fame closes out the record by layering the excitement of live crowds over Popnoname’s strength. Mirroring the original track, it offers a reflection in a different context, with a new interpretation.

  Spaces, with its uplifting sounds and expanding surfaces, offers a solid theory as to what the elusive content (that missing mass called dark matter) of the universe might be. But you’ll have to first listen and reach for the dangling string floating by, attached to a red helium balloon, allow yourself whatever transformation might unfold once you grasp hold.

  words by Rayna Deniord

POPNONAME - Spaces (PAID FOR FAME remix) [POP! 02]

Brut! Records baby sister label, POP!, sees its second release with Popnoname’s Spaces. An eclectic line-up, including Joerg Burger, Freund der Familie and Paid for Fame, remix the original three times over offering varied perspectives  of the same brave track. Revving its engine, Spaces drives you to experience things: it invites you to crack yourself open so that some new future might pour through that voluntary rift. Bold and beautiful and formless, it emerges: a baby nebula, cradled in the spiral arms of a distant galaxy, patiently building mass as it clumps gas and dust together.

    The important things often creep up unaware.  Only once they arrive do you recognize them, even though you had given them no shape in your mind prior to their arrival. Space gives possibility to what these forms might be, boundless in four-dimensions. It’s that expanding medium that allows imagination to roam without end…where the need to distinguish between what you know and invented evaporates and flows pure and clear.

    With Spaces, Popnoname adds an “s” to the end of this giant 5-letter word and a plurality emerges. Definition shuffles its feet and looks to the ceiling, uncertain of just whom it might be. This record examines ‘spaces’ with different dimensions and structures. It  invites  you to explore sonic relationships. Each artist applies a creative force to the word and a preferred geometry settles into form: one moment a handled-cup, the next a donut, a tire, a steel nut, a pipe…ever-shifting manifolds.

    On the A-side, the original track is perhaps an imprint of Popnoname’s inner shape: a confident energy creating a place where rare river otters lounge on sun-warmed rocks and thick water fills your mouth  when you inhale to drink. Joerg Burger’s remix follows with a poetic sprung-rhythm. Stripping away  the pop and sparkle, he  studies the beauty of its reduced structure: comfortable in its naked form.

    The flip side offers Freund der Familie’s abstracted take. Removing the vocals, the track slowly melts away into decaying reverb. Billowing echoes subtly elongate deep belly growls and stretch your sight beyond the visible horizon until intuition emerges. Paid for Fame closes out the record by layering the excitement of live crowds over Popnoname’s strength. Mirroring the original track, it offers a reflection in a different context, with a new interpretation.

    Spaces, with its uplifting sounds and expanding surfaces, offers a solid theory as to what the elusive content (that missing mass called dark matter) of the universe might be. But you’ll have to first listen and reach for the dangling string floating by, attached to a red helium balloon, allow yourself whatever transformation might unfold once you grasp hold.

    words by Rayna Deniord

POPNONAME - Spaces (FREUND DER FAMILIE remix) [POP! 02]

POPNONAME - Spaces (JOERG BURGER remix) [POP! 02]

POPNONAME - Spaces [POP! 02]

Yo kid! Remember back in the day? The Underground was truly the Underground.
  People weren't trying to make tracks. People were making songs.
  No chart dropping. No RA. No MySpace. It was just straight Underground Pop writing.
  Yo! Remember Techno Pop? What happened?
  Andreas Dorau. Yo kid! What happened?
  Hamburg, Parfüm . What happened?
  Firm. Oh! They're still there.
  Kompakt Pop, Cologne. What happened? Can somebody tell me?
  Ladomat 2000. We all know what happened..

  Console. What happened? Egoexpress . What happened?
  Micromusic. What happened? Popacid. What happened?
  Hans Nieswandt. What happened? Rework. What happened?
  Scheinselbständig. What happened? Christopher Just. What happened?
  Cologne, the Minimal Pop-House sound. You gotta be kidding. What happened?
  Synth Pop. Come on, man. What's up?
  Techno Pop. What the fuck happened?
  It used to be so good...

  Bring back the cheerful moments!
  Show some Moral Support!

GROUP OF PEOPLE - Moral Support (POPNONAME & DEE PULSE remix) [POP! 01]

Yo kid! Remember back in the day? The Underground was truly the Underground.
 People weren't trying to make tracks. People were making songs.
 No chart dropping. No RA. No MySpace. 
It was just straight Underground Pop writing.
 Yo! Remember Techno Pop? What happened?
 Andreas Dorau. Yo kid! What happened?
 Hamburg, Parfüm . What happened?
 Firm. Oh! They're still there.
 Kompakt Pop, Cologne. What happened? 
Can somebody tell me?
 Ladomat 2000. We all know what happened..

 Console. What happened? 
Egoexpress . What happened?
 Micromusic. What happened? 
Popacid. What happened?
 Hans Nieswandt. What happened? 
Rework. What happened?
 Scheinselbständig. What happened? 
Christopher Just. What happened?
 Cologne, the Minimal Pop-House sound. 
You gotta be kidding. What happened?
 Synth Pop. Come on, man. What's up?
 Techno Pop. What the fuck happened?
 It used to be so good...

 POP! records is a division of http://soundcloud.com/brut-records

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 POP! records
 POP! 02: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pop-records/sets/popnoname-spaces-joerg-burger-freund-der-familie-paid-for-fame-pop-02">Popnoname "Spaces" (Joerg Burger / Freund der Familie / Paid for Fame remixes)</a>
 POP! 01: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/pop-records/sets/group-of-people-moral-support-popnoname-dee-pulse-remix-pop-01">Group Of People "Moral Support (Popnoname & Dee Pulse remix)"</a>
 
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 Mastering: <a href="http://www.myspace.com/scapemastering">Stefan Betke</a> 
 Pressing: <a href="http://www.randmuzik.de">Rand-Muzik</a> 
 Distribution: <a href="http://www.intergroove.de">Intergroove</a>

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